AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: n.s. [pure, unmixed, genuine (L)]
Type locality: Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika [Tanzania]
Type depository: Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany (ZM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Comoros, Eswatini, Kenya, Madagascar (includes Glorioso and Juan de Nova Isl.), Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Republic of South Africa, Somalia, Tanzania (includes Zanzibar), Zambia, Zimbabwe.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Dönitz 1902: 77 (M, F*)
Coluzzi 1964: 204 (M*, P, L, E*)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 223 (taxonomy, bionomics)
Cross 1983: 155 (dist.; Republic of South Africa)
Sinka et al. 2010: 117 (bionomics, review, distribution, niche model)
Becker et al. 2010: 326 (distribution, bionomics)
Kipyab et al. 2013 (bionomics)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. litoralis Halcrow
1957: 133 (M, F, P, L, E; as subspecies). Type locality: Pointe aux Piments, Mauritius (A). References: Stone et al. 1959: 43 (syn.?).
syn. tangensis Kuhlow
1962: 448 (M, F). Type locality: Tanga, Tanganyika [Tanzania] (BNI).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Becker, N., Petrić, D., Zgomba, M., Boase, C., Madon, M., Dahl, C., & Kaiser, A. (2010). Mosquitoes and their control (2nd ed.). Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag.
Coluzzi, M. (1964). Morphological divergences in the Anopheles gambiae complex. Rivista di malariologia, 43(4–6), 197–232.
Cross, H.A. (1983). A new distribution record of Anopheles merus Donitz. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 46(1), 155.
Dönitz, W. (1902). Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Anopheles. Zeitschrift für Hygiene, 41, 15–88.
Gillies, M.T., & De Meillon, B. (1968). The Anophelinae of Africa, south of the Sahara (Ethiopian Zoogeographical Region). Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 54, 1–343.
Halcrow, J.G. (1957). A new sub-species of Anopheles gambiae Giles from Mauritius. East African Medical Journal, 34(4), 133–135.
Kipyab, P.C., Khaemba, B.M., Mwangangi, J.M., & Mbogo, C.M. (2013). The bionomics of Anopheles merus (Diptera: Culicidae) along the Kenyan coast. Parasites and Vectors, 6, 37–42.
Kuhlow, F. (1962). Beobachtungen und Experimente uber den Anopheles gambiae Komplex, Abtrennung von Anopheles tangensis n. sp.? Z Tropenmed Parasitol (Stuttgart), 13, 442–449.
Kyalo, D., Amratia, P., Mundia, C.W., Mbogo, C.M., Coetzee, M., & Snow, R.W. (2017). A geo-coded inventory of anophelines in the Afrotropical Region south of the Sahara: 1898–2016. Wellcome Open Research, 2, 57.
Sinka, M.E., Bangs, M.J., Manguin, S., Coetzee, M., Mbogo, C.M., Hemingway, J., . . . Hay, S.I. (2010a). The dominant Anopheles vectors of human malaria in Africa, Europe and the Middle East: Occurrence, data, distribution maps and bionomic précis. Parasites and Vectors, 3(117), 1–34.
Stone, A., Knight, K.L., & Starcke, H. (1959). A synoptic catalog of the mosquitoes of the world (Diptera, Culicidae) (Vol. 6). Washington, DC: Thomas Say Foundation, Entomological Society of America.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles merus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/merus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
